La Duodecima Revelacion: La Hora de Decidir = The Twelfth Insigth

Debo aclarar que este no es un libro religioso sino estrictamente literario. He buscado que la figura del sacerdote, vista a través de un vasto prisma, esté tratada de manera que no hiera los sentimientos de nadie. Quien pretenda encontrar frailes y curas glotones y lujuriosos, propios de los Cuentos de Canterbury de Chaucer, del Decamerón de Boccaccio o de la picaresca española, por citar algunos ejemplos, deberá buscarlo en otras fuentes. Los diversos curas incluidos aquí son, la mayoría de las veces, personas comunes, iluminadas o guiadas por su fe, que cumplen lo mejor que pueden...

Damon was just an ordinary comic book store employee, then one day that all changed. The world was plunged into chaos as monsters emerged from the ground and the sea. With them an ancient power that bestowed a few humans with special abilities. Mankind in their desperation resorted to drastic measures, nearly destroying themselves in the process. Damon was one such person to get a special ability. Unfortunately this power is slowly corrupting him and everyone around him. Along the way he meets his high-school crush, Emily. They slowly descend into madness, depravity, and lust. Join them as...

Andean immigrants leave their mountain heights in search of a better future in the Peruvian coast, often unsuccessfully. They live in hopeless disappointment until an unexpected visit revolutionizes their environment and gives them back the desire to work to elevate their family’s levels, in the humble shantytowns in which they have settled, by encouraging them to strive to achieve their dreams and regain their rights. Of profound social content, The Park of Dreams tells the story of the great small feat that returns their self esteem to the people of "La Esperanza".

El universo habanero de las novelas de Leonardo Padura ya es inconfundible, pero hasta ahora sus relatos nunca habían sido recogidos en un solo volumen. Sus cuentos son historias magnífi cas protagonizadas por periodistas que vuelven de Angola a La Habana y recalan en Madrid —donde el azar los transportará al pasado—, o que al abandonar el país africano se sienten doblemente traicionados; por estudiantes seducidos por boleros y cantantes de antiguo esplendor; por solitarios que recorren La Habana nocturna en busca de un afecto, algún roce que, paradójicamente, los transforma en...